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I don't mean to be inflammatory but I am not at all convinced that LLMs will be useful for software development in 5 years!

I think LLMs are very well marketed but I don't think they're very good at writing code and I don't think they've gotten better at it!

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I sort of agree. If anything I feel like they've gotten a bit worse, but the advances in the tooling around them (eg claude code) has masked that slightly.

I think they are useful as an augmentation, but largely valueless for directly outputting code. Who knows if that will change. It's still made me more productive as a dev despite not oneshotting entire files. It's just not industry-changing, at least yet.

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